China by Kwok Ying Fung with Fritz Henle. Henry Holt & Co., 1943, with dust jacket.

Very good plus hardcover in red cloth with protected, fair dust jacket with edge wear and piece missing from front panel. 84 duotone photographs, one to a page with captions on facing page. Uncommon with a dust jacket. Photographs edited and arranged by Fritz Henle, who is credited with 23, with 11 by Sidney D. Gamble, 7 by Pun Leuk Loo, 6 by Man Li Hung, and remainder by others. Text by Kwok Ying Fung, a Chinese American writer who began collecting some of the photos in the 1930s while teaching English at Sun Yat Sen University. Portrays the Republic of China before the Communist takeover, during World War II when led by Chiang Kai-shek, two photos of whom are included, one on back cover with his wife. Note: An album of Kwok Ying Fung photographs of the College of William and Mary taken around 1965 is in the college’s Special Collections Research Center.